Title: The working regime analysis of a track-type tractor

Authors: Ticuşor Ciobotaru; Daniel Frunzeti; Ioan Rus; Lorentz Jäntschi

Addresses: Military Technical Academy, 81-83 G. Cosbuc Bvd., Bucharest 050141, Romania ' Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 103-105 Muncii Bvd., Cluj-Napoca 400641, Romania ' Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 103-105 Muncii Bvd., Cluj-Napoca 400641, Romania ' Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 103-105 Muncii Bvd., Cluj-Napoca 400641, Romania

Abstract: The estimation of the vehicle acceleration performance plays an important role in the assessment of the vehicle mobility. The estimation becomes difficult in the case of tracked vehicles owing to the complexity of their power pack (consisting mainly of the engine and the hydromechanical transmission) and also because of the tracked running gear. Because of that, this case was taken into investigation and an algorithm was proposed. The algorithm is focused on the estimation of the acceleration performances. The accuracy of the proposed algorithm is compared with the experimental data resulted from the testing of a 50 tonnes tracked vehicle running up to 60 km/h, concluding that the model-based data are in good agreement with the experimental results.

Keywords: tracked vehicles; vehicle acceleration; mobility; torque converter; acceleration performance; tractors; modelling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHVS.2012.046833

International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems, 2012 Vol.19 No.2, pp.172 - 187

Published online: 20 Dec 2014 *

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